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The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
eBook by Frank Huyler
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eBook Category: People
eBook Description:  Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments--the intricacy of suturing a facial wound, the bath a patient receives from her husband and daughter--interweave with the lives and deaths of the desperately sick and injured. The author presents an array of fascinating characters, both patients and doctors--a neurosurgeon who practices witchcraft, a trauma surgeon who unexpectedly commits suicide, a wounded murderer, a man chased across the New Mexico desert by a heat-seeking missile. At times surreal, at times lyrical, at times brutal and terrifying, The Blood of Strangers is a literary work that emerges from one of the most dramatic specialties of modern medicine. This deeply affecting first book has been described by one early reader as "the best doctor collection I have seen since William Carlos Williams's The Doctor Stories."
eBook Publisher: University of California Press, Published: 1999
Fictionwise Release Date: January 2003
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Available eBook Formats [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7 - What's this?]: SECURE MICROSOFT READER FORMAT (595 KB] - Requires Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for PCs, or Microsoft Reader 2.2.2 on Pocket PC 2002 handheld devices. Some older Pocket PCs can be upgraded. Learn More., SECURE ADOBE READER 7 FORMAT (816 KB]
Secure Adobe Reader 7: Printing enabled, Read-aloud enabled
Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
Adobe Acrobat Reader ISBN: 0520900030
Microsoft Reader ISBN: 0520900049
 
"Utterly engrossing, moving, poetic accounts."--Kirkus
"Watch out! This book could make you miss your subway stop or an appointment. For Huyler is, besides a caring and skillful physician, a poet whose choice of words, conciseness, and feeling for rhythm draw one into the stories he tells."--Booklist "The author of these doctor stories is an E.R. physician as well as a poet, and his work shows the economy and sharp attention that both jobs demand."--The New Yorker "[Huyler] writes so beautifully, in that humble, simple way that is very affecting. It's very compassionate, filled with detail and just splendid, lucid sentences."--Entertainment Weekly "This haunting, exquisitely observed collection of medical vignettes is much more than a compilation of odd cases from the emergency room. Huyler probes beneath the surface to reveal the marrow of his encounters with patients ... his character studies of the often quirky, sometimes tragic colleagues and patients who pass through the ward are quite poignant. Though this slim collection ends just as one has settled into it, it marks Huyler as a writer to watch."--Publishers Weekly starred review "Huyler's writing is sharp and spare, clean as a scalpel. This volume is a modest jewel, a compact, faceted gem that shines with intelligence."--The Boston Globe "These 28 vignettes tell in stripped-down prose what [Huyler's] profession is like, leaving the reader both shocked and moved."--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Editor's Choice "At times, Huyler's writing is so crisp and beautiful it startles."--New England Journal of Medicine "Observant and sympathetic, Huyler is a vivid writer ... each flash of memory is gripping."--New Scientist
Odds whisper around us, wheels turn, molecules whir like bobbins. And then, maybe once or twice in our whole lives, events conspire, statistics align with the force of diamonds against us, and there is no chance, the wind blows through us, we're gone. Sometimes we come back. It's magic and real. Those we love walk in, they sit down at the side of the bed. They hold our hands. They look into our eyes and weep, which is what the body does.
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